A CDIO-based teaching quality monitoring system for computer science and technology specialty at private universities

Engineer shortage and quality of engineering education is now a common problem, which requires engineering education reform urgently. The CDIO engineering education model is developed to solve this problem by setting a set of systematic, generic and feasible teaching standards for all engineering education areas. To reform the current engineering education system and establish a complete set of training methods, a comprehensive reform is necessary in key aspects such as teaching management, evaluation mechanisms and so on. This paper takes for instance a CDIO-based computer science and technology specialty education reform, on top of the already built ABET-based teaching quality monitoring system, combining the education practice at the Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information, discusses methods for continuously improving the teaching quality and transforming daily education activities with the help of CDIO philosophy.